Hopkinsville Solid Waste General Manager Tony Sicari announced his retirement at Tuesday evening’s Hopkinsville City Council meeting, and council approved several municipal orders.
Sicari has served as general manager since 2011, and Mayor Wendell Lynch says his service to Hopkinsville began long before that, and he’s seen to many improvements and changes at Hopkinsville Solid Waste in that time.
Sicari says serving the residents of the city has been the honor of a lifetime, and although he will miss it greatly, it felt like it was the right time to retire.
The mayor presented Sicari with a certificate of appreciation, wishing him well and good luck in all his future endeavors. His retirement date is set for October 14.
Council unanimously approved the annexation of roughly 613 acres of land on John Rivers Road into the city limits of Hopkinsville—Mayor Lynch says this is the next step in the process of preparing Commerce Park #2 for the arrival of Ascend Elements.
Also approved were $40,000 in matching grant funds to go towards application to the Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant program that is designed to support activities reconnecting communities by removing, retrofitting or mitigating transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity.
In other action, council approved a municipal order reclaiming $56,492 of the $110,000 of funds that had been appropriated to the COVID-19 vaccination incentive program, as that amount of the funds has unused. The funds will be reallocated for other city uses, as designated by the council.
Council approved $2.2 million of American Rescue Plan Act funds to be used towards the construction of a fire station, which is currently in the planning stages.